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<br />6 <br /> <br />to the provISion of. tlie Constitution which gives the :presidt>Dt <br />the power- <br />From tIme to Hille r tol give to the Congress InfOl'lDutloll of tbe state <br />of th~ [lnlon. nnd l"ccomrueucJ to their consideration such measures as <br />be sllnll judge necesslIry and expedient. <br />1'dr. '.I'ELLEH. 'I'hat Is not all eX:CCllUve power. <br />Mr. NEWLANDS. I will tal{e only u momeot, If the Seuator <br />will permit me. I sny it .is not executive power. <br />Mr. TELLER. It is not legislative power. <br />MI', NEWLANDS. It is one of the powel's, however, r~. <br />luting to legislation. In addition to that, the President bas <br />power to veLo a meaSUl'e. <br />MI". 'l'EI.,LTtJH. I l1:we called attentloll to that. <br />M1'. NEWI,ANDS. So it strikes me that the Executive Hlay <br />well he cf\llefl a llfll'l of the leglslutive power just as the Senate <br />is a Imrt of the treaty-making 110\VCl'. <br />1\11'. 'l'ELLlDH.. I tll1nl< I can make fl distinction hetween the <br />veto powC!' and the trea.ty.maldng I)OWel', and if I am allowed <br />I shall try to do !:IO before I get through. I will stop now to <br />say that the rre~i(lent can not make a treaty witllOllt the con- <br />sent of the Senitte flJHl the Senate Cfln not make a treaty without <br />thc consent ot the President. Tl.mt, [IS I ha ,'e snid about <br />another thiug, is unique. '1'he 1\:luJ:; of Great Bl'itain find the <br />king of .prncUcally evcry country that I know l111ything nhout <br />can make a treat~r to snit tl1emselves. I know lbere l1as hcen <br />SOlllC cOlltrovcrs~' in ]~nglalld as to how till' n treaty cOHld be: <br />Hinde without the conC'lll'l'enCe of Parliament, where appropria- <br />tions hnd to be made; but the right of the King to make n treaty <br />without the cotlf:lent of eHl1er tlle Housc of LOl'(lH or tlle COIll- <br />mOils is not questioned in these dn~rs, and I do not knuw wlletl1er <br />it bln:1 ever been fluestloncd, Bnt I suppose it is two..hllnclred. <br />:ve~rs Rince the King of Great Britnin ever. vetoed an (let of Par- <br />Iinlllcllt, and he woulelllo more think of doIng it tLlllU l1e would. <br />tlJinl;: of resigning his positIon of ICing. <br />But 1 have saId once or twice, nod I wallt to re!H>al", there is <br />110 precedent. for us, and later I Intend to speak or the Cftre ftnd <br />wisdom wall whicl1 I think the Constitution proceeded. 'l'l1ere <br />is no jlnttern In the history of the world for this Government of <br />our~, Thcl'e bn\'e bCC'll J€ugues find confederacies, hut there <br />never hus beell n combinution of sovereignties sHcll n:; OUl'S iu <br />which tl1ere is aile gene!'nl ruling. body oyer so lllUll)' sovereigu. <br />powers. <br />It Is dlfflcnll sometimes, I know, to sepurntc these so tLHlt. <br />therc will not. apparently be a necessity for interference on the. <br />purt of thc uution In the affairs of tl1e State lIud sometimes an <br />interference l>y the State in the nffail's of the nntiel]}: l>ut I <br />think yon muy lay 1t down as n fundAmental IH'illCiplp wl1ich: <br />has !le-cn settled by Ow courts that in all things appertaiuing to <br />T1Htiollal flffllll's the Government of the United StnteH Is Hhso- <br />]l1tely F.Itlpl'emc" It bas lllenary vowe~'s, full powers, cClJl]plete <br />powp.l' to do e\'el'ythiug that haB been delegated to it or left to it.. <br />Whp.nevel' It CUll do a single thing by COll1iCress, it !\lay do it <br />H8 cmphntlcnlly find llerfectly and absolutely !IS If it waf; n <br />govC'rnment lil<e Great Bl'ltaill. That wa.s sdtlecl by ~Ial'shallt <br />in. Gibbon~ v. Ogden, a case decIded very eurly in our bistory,:. <br />But it haa not. minimized. the State.s i It has not iuterfel'ed with' <br />44406-7816 .. . <br />